A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with
technologies we can no longer fully control or understand? George Dyson plots an unexpected
course through the past 300 years to reveal the hidden connections that underpin our digital
age ending with a premonition of what lies ahead. From an eighteenth-century Russian voyage
across the North Pacific to the mirror signals that heralded the age of digital
telecommunications and the invention of the vacuum tube Analogia interweaves historical
adventure with scientific insight in a deeply personal story that frames the pursuit - and cost
- of the digital revolution in a captivating new light.
